78 HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 



United States and Canada. Public institutions, experiment stations, and indi- 

 viduals who have used Holstein-Friesian cattle, whether grades or pure-breds, 

 have found them uniformly the most economical producers. 



The director of the lovra Agricultural College Experiment Station, Prof. 

 Wilson, is making excellent progress in his experiments with the Holstein- 

 Friesian breed of cattle and others, testing them for the Advanced Registry. 

 The director keeps some thirty head of Holstein-Friesians on the college farm, 

 and says they are not excelled in amount of butter fat by any other breeds 

 kept there. 



The Smiths & Powell Company, Syracuse, N. Y., writes : " We have just 

 received a letter from Mr. W. J. Hayes, of Ravenna, O., who, some years ago, 

 bought some choice representatives of the Clothilde and Netherland families as 

 foundation animals for a choice, herd of Holstein-Friesians. 



" He has been breeding but a few years, and writes us under date of Janu- 

 ary 10, 1896, as follows : ' During the year 1895, we milked from twenty-nine 

 cows and nine heifers 387,555 Ibs. of milk, averaging for each cow and heifer 

 10,200 Ibs., and made 14,136 Ibs. of butter. For this we received $4,029.30, an 

 average price per pound of 28$ cents.' 



" From this statement it will be seen that the average returns from the 

 whole thirty-eight cows in milk, nine of which were heifers, were $106.30, and 

 that the whole number averaged 372 Ibs. of butter per cow. 



" If the heifers were counted as half cows, which is quite common among 

 dairymen, it would show an average of over 421 Ibs. of butter per cow for the 

 year. 



" Such a showing as this, it seems to us, must be very gratifying to Hol- 

 stein-Friesian breeders, and it is certainly very gratifying to us, as his herd is 

 very largely made up of the Clothilde and Netherland families." 



CHAPTER XI. 



DAIRY YIELDS GRADE HOLSTEINS. 



M. S. Nye, of Homer, N. Y., writes : " The past year my dairy of twenty- 

 two Holstein-Friesian cows gave an average of 8,048 Ibs. of milk per cow. Ten 

 of the cows were four years and under. I have in the past two years made 

 twelve tests with the scales and churn for butter in the months of May, June 

 and July. The average amount of milk for one pound of butter was 22 Ibs. 

 Taking that for an average for the year, the dairy has produced 365 Ibs. of 

 butter per cow in one year. 



"I have drawn my milk to milk depots for the past six years, and they 

 have been well pleased with the quality of milk." 



Charles Mimrich, North Heidelberg, Pa., April 1, 1895, writes : "I find my 

 Holsteins far superior to either the Jersey or Swiss breeds of cattle which I 

 have been breeding the past ten years." 



W. A. Halsey, Port Byron, N. Y., April 1, 1895: "I am decidedly of the 

 opinion that the Holsteins have no superior for milk, butter and beef." 



W. M. Benninger, Walnutport, Pa.: "I am convinced by actual experience 

 that good Holsteins are decidedly the best general purpose cattle. I am getting 

 from two to five cents per pound more for my butter than the other 

 creameries near here, which is due to the milk being from a pure-bred herd of 

 Holsteins." 



E. S. Allen, Baxter, Iowa : "I have twenty-five head of the favorite black- 

 and-white cattle. We milked eight cows and three heifers last season. They 

 averaged me one pound of butter a day for ten months in the year. In the 

 winter they were fed dry corn in the ear and timothy hay, and in summer I 

 soaked the corn and fed them ten ears night and morning. The weather was 

 so dry that the pasture all dried up. In the fall, until cold weather, they were 

 fed what pumpkins they would eat. I raised seven calves, feeding milk direct 

 from the cow until they were from 15 to 20 days old, then put them on skim 

 milk, and oil cake meal and salt and the milk poured over it, with what hay 

 and corn they would eat, but no grass until they were weaned. 



"The milk was sold to creamery and run through a separator, we getting 80 

 per cent in skim milk to bring home. My test ran from 4 1-5 to 3 1-4 fat or 



